MINIMUM WAGES –Tea Garden Workers and Vultures
It’s time for the Monsoon flush, fighting with the wind and the rain women are seen bent at their waist behind the tea bush, plucking…
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THEATER OF ABSURD: Bengal Wants Central Govt to Pay Land Compensation for Bagdogra Airport Extension
If anyone wants to study the reason why despite holding investment fairs every year, very few investors actually invest in Bengal, the proposed expansion of…
Darjeeling, Development and Diversions
“Politically unfree citizens are deficient in freedom even if they happen to enjoy a very high level of income” – Amartya Sen, 1999 The…
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: The Deafening Silence of Hill Citizens
One ‘interesting’ thing about my friends from Darjeeling is the way they can come up with an excuse for everything. Every discussion about ‘back home’…
MOST DESERVING: Mamata to be Felicitated With “Bhanu Smriti Samman”
A newly formed body, Kalchini Nagarik Samaj has embarked on a noble pursuit, to honour and celebrate one of the most fervent champions of Nepali…
GTA “Hill Tribes” Quota Used to Benefit “Non-Hill,” “Non-Tribal” Candidate – Allege Students of Krishi College
Hill Students of Bidhan Chandra Krishi College (BCKC) in Mohanpur have been left outraged over the alleged misuse of the seat reserved for “hill tribes”…
HEINOUS: 16-year-old Minor Gang-raped Near Bijanbari
Bijanbari police have arrested four local youths Lakhu Subba, Wangdi Tamang, Kamal Mothay and Bigesh Mothay all in their early 30’s, on charges of raping…
HERITAGE LOST: Kurseong Railway Printing Press to Shut Down
In the year 2007, Indian Railway Board’s policy division, under the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance had constituted a review committee to examine the status…
WHAT DARJEELING THOUGHT IN 2016 – Bengal is Thinking Now
On the 10th of July 2016, we had published an article warning our readers about the perils of mastic asphalt surfaces that was being laid…
World Cup Town, Really? An inconvenient truth
An eerie silence descends in mountains after dark. A few people scuttling back to their homes. The pariah dogs had taken over parts of Chowrasta…